Skip to main content

Advancing Nutrition and Food Science 80th Anniversary of the Food and Nutrition Board: Proceedings of a Symposium (2020) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

7 Perspectives on the Future of the Food and Nutrition Board
Pages 61-64

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 61...
... She reminded the audience of what Cutberto Garza had said in the opening video: "There are three things we cannot live without, food, air, and water.… All three of those components are in serious trouble," and these three issues are closely integrated. Greenwood explained that there are serious issues with the availability of food, the quality of food, and the transformation of food.
Read the entire page →
From page 62...
... As an observation, Meyers remarked, continuing the key role of the FNB in advancing food and nutrition will require collaboration, hard work, and openness on the part of the National Academies and the FNB to more compellingly explain how and why the institution works, and why it is uniquely positioned to address hard topics in food and nutrition. She added that it is going to require sponsors to keep an open mind in understanding what seems like a blurry and unfamiliar process.
Read the entire page →
From page 63...
... Dwyer then turned to the need for support, in which she included "in-kind moral support" as well as economic support for the FNB both from within the National Academies and from the broader academic network. Dwyer encouraged Congress as well as the private and nonprofit sectors to consider the need for an FNB endowment to support projects.
Read the entire page →
From page 64...
... In her remarks, Kumanyika said, "if it looked difficult in 1940, that was nothing compared to what we are facing now. It is a lot more complicated, broader, and challenging.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • health report
  • nutrition board
  • call nutrition
  • tufts university
  • meyers remarked

  • knowledge gaps
  • food issues
  • real impact
  • work expanded
  • science grows

  • solla price
  • hard topics
  • community health
  • food consumption
  • nonprofit sectors

  • equally compelling
  • look proactively
  • lydia roberts
  • university friedman
  • diana crane

  • encouraged congress
  • evolving models
  • compelling report
  • changing patterns
  • economic support

  • hard work
  • closing comment
  • food safety
  • issues continue
  • temporary phenomenon


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.